The body of an Effingham County Sheriff’s Office deputy was found about 9:15 a.m. today in a sheriff’s office vehicle in front of a department building near the Effingham County Courthouse.The sheriff’s office and GBI are investigating.

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From all of the news reports of the events in Effingham, there seems to be a high degree of chaos running rampant there. More than you hear about in surrounding counties, other than perhaps Chatham. Will be hearing more about his story soon, I am sure.

Instead of bashing people and assuming things that NO ONE KNOWS at this point, maybe you critics should be ON YOUR KNEES praying for this family who has lost a love one. No matter how this person died, whether it be natural causes or something more devistating, there is a lost loved one here.

Im glad someone has the compassion and common sense not to find it cool to bash a dead man. It has been amazing to me how certain people always respond negatively when someone has passed. i will pray to the jesus for your family.

I wasn't saying the person who died was being bashed. There was a comment on here that somehow has been deleted where a person's name who is TOTALLY unrelated to this incident was brought up. That is where my bashing comment came from.

No, I'm saying 'good one' for tying another Eff tragedy to Drama Queen Heidt. It's always tragic, when a human being who makes an effort to make the world a better place, passes on. But Robin Heidt seems to be at the center of a lot of Bad Things going on in the 'ham. As Westie said, we don't even know who is dead. Just seems apropos to tie all bad things in the 'ham to the Tammy Fae Bakker look alike...

Having been in the law enforcement community for 35 years and living in Effingham, there is a pretty good chance that I know him. But whether or not I do, I pray for his family to find some comfort during this time.

“I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”

“I looked at a cage full of monkeys and suddenly I saw all the mean and cruel and utterly unexplainable things I've seen and heard and read about in the time I've been with my own people - and suddenly it hurt so much I found myself laughing.”

“But find me something that makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, anything - but something that gave you a belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't wrongness somewhere and whether you would laugh if the wrongness wasn't there.”

“I had thought - I had been told - that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't. Not ever is it funny to the person it happens to. The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery... and a sharing... against pain and sorrow and defeat.”

“Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us - us humans - death is so sad that we must laugh at it. All those religions - they contradict each other on every other point but each one is filled with ways to help people be brave, to laugh even though they knew they were dying."

on the CAUSE of this deputy's death. Under Georgia law, ANY death which occurs outside of an acute care facility, aka 'hospital', OR which occurs within 24 hours of admission thereof, MUST be reported to the coroner, at whose discretion an autopsy may be ordered. This has been done. But the Court Of Public Opinion seems to have already rendered its verdict that there just HAD to be 'foul play'. Is NO ONE allowed to die of Natural Causes anymore?